I hate the tv

According to this and this, pretty soon developers with the need for hardcore specialized processing power will be able to get a Xilinx Virtex FPGA as a co-processor on an AMD Opteron system. This may be an interesting option for infrastructure folks as it would allow for reconfigurability at the same time as non-laughable throughput.

So the US Army is deploying some of these in Iraq:

no…..wait…these….

No…thats still not it…

These!

See more here. I’ve always been bothered by the idea of working on weapons for one reason or another.